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'BACKSTROM' PREMIERES THURSDAY ON FOX 1 Dwight from NBC's "The Office" was an arrogant and obnoxious paper salesman/beet farmer. Turn him into a drunk, put him into a raincoat and make him a detective and you get Everett Backstrom. Rainn Wilson plays the brilliant detective in a new Fox drama, "Backstrom." I liked the trailer, which has him looking through a closet and concluding: "Wooden hangers. That's when you know you have too much money." 9 p.m. Thursday. 'STRANGE MAGIC' OPENS FRIDAY 2 Hmmmm. This could be good, or just horrible. Hard to tell from the trailer and clips. The good news is the animated PG movie is from...

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After more than 16 years and nearly 2,600 telecasts, Jon Stewart can feel proud of his scads of Emmys and his Peabody Award, his cultural gravitas (he hung with the Prez, both on and off the air!), even his reprobate status at Fox News. Who could blame...

Incoming "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah said politics and the media will remain targets of the program but the perspective will be distinctively his. "The show still has its voice. It's just I'm at the helm taking things in a slightly...

It's not lost on Trevor Noah that he has a big seat to fill as he prepares to take the helm of Comedy Central's "Daily Show" in September. He doesn't even have a funny quip about it.
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If Trevor Noah is feeling any early jitters about settling into Jon Stewart's chair as the new host of the "The Daily Show," he's hiding it very well.
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It's a safe bet former "Daily Show" correspondent Wyatt Cenac will not be mourning Jon Stewart's retirement next month.
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For President Barack Obama, six-and-a-half years in the Oval Office seems like an eternity. Comedian Jon Stewart has been keeping his anchor seat warm on "The Daily Show" for 16. On Tuesday, the two shared a moment of senioritis as both approach...

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Jon Stewart enters the home stretch of his 16 years on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" on Monday, with 12 more nights of jokes at the expense of those who make and report the news before he signs off for good on Aug. 6. Stewart's exit, the...

President Barack Obama will make his seventh and final appearance on "The Daily Show" in advance to Jon Stewart's departure.
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As the senior Muslim correspondent on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," actor Aasif Mandvi parodied some of the media's most absurd notions about Islam, the Middle East and essentially any brown culture that qualified as "foreign."
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Jon Stewart now has a firm departure date from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." The comic announced on Monday's broadcast of the program that he will leave the show after its August 6th broadcast.
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Jon Stewart is voicing full support for his "Daily Show" successor Trevor Noah, calling the incoming host "incredibly thoughtful and considerate and funny and smart."
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What was Comedy Central thinking?
In tapping Trevor Noah as the next host of "The Daily Show," the cable network will turn over its most valuable franchise to a relative unknown who has made just a handful of appearances on the program.
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Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian from South Africa who has contributed to "The Daily Show" a handful of times in recent months, will become Jon Stewart's replacement as host, Comedy Central announced Monday.
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